Past Event
Friday, February 23, 2024, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Curator Talk with Artist Lewis DeSoto
2080 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, 92101
Cost: $10
SDAM presents artist Lewis DeSoto in support of "Conquest," his 2004 work, newly installed at the San Diego Automotive Museum. With his automotive-based sculpture Conquest (2004), artist Lewis deSoto examines the relationship between his Cahuilla background and his distant ancestor (conquistador Hernando de Soto) within the context of the automotive industry, which in its branding appropriates terms, imagery, and aesthetics related to the brutal conquest of the Americas. Conquest subtly interrogates the mythologies and identities of Southern California through the lens of midcentury capitalism.